CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/1/2023

First major monograph on Somaya Critchlow

Somaya Critchlow: Paintings and Drawings opens today at the Flag Art Foundation in New York, and we are delighted to recommend a bit of supplemental reading in Somaya Critchlow: Paintings, published by Skira. Collecting 100 oil paintings made 2018–2019, this is the first major monograph on the rising British artist. Amanda Renshaw describes a moment when Critchlow’s studio came alive for her. “Young women; looking at me; watching me from their rectangular shaped spaces, calmly standing, seated or leaning back against a table; quietly waiting until I had noticed them. The canvases were small—comfortable to hold in one hand—half way between miniature and icon, these were pictures of loved ones. Yes, loved ones: like children coming of age, they may surprise, reject and rebel against their parents, but they are loved…” Featured image is Foot on the Wheel (2019).